In Manafort Case, Encrypted Messages Don’t Mean Much if People Involved in the Conversation Are Snitches
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com How did special counsel Robert Mueller’s people get Paul Manafort’s encrypted messages that suggested he was tampering with witnesses? In a court filing, Mueller writes that FBI investigators obtained messages that Manafort—who was indicted for money laundering, tax fraud, and other charges in October—sent to witnesses in his case in an attempt…